Domains

Since its founding in 1907, the Kirin Group has continued to grow for over 100 years.

Starting from the beer business, the company expanded into the Food & Beverages domain, and from the 1980s, fermentation and biotechnology have been used to expand into the Pharmaceuticals and Health Science domains. The Kirin Group is working to provide products and services that increase the quality of life for consumers in all of their life stages and at the same time solve the social issues.

Since its founding, the Kirin Group has remained connected to consumers through products and services and is offering numerous brands in various regions and countries around the world.

In the Food & Beverages domain, the Kirin Group has expanded into overseas markets mainly in Asia and Oceania and is well-known and loved by many consumers.
Recently in the Health Science domain, highly functional products and services that utilize the group’s strengths have been developed.

Under the Long-Term Management Vision “Kirin Group Vision 2027 (KV2027)” established in 2019, Kirin Group is aiming to become a global leader in CSV, creating value across the domains of Food & Beverages to Pharmaceuticals.
During the first three years of the Medium-Term Business Plan (2019-2021), key performance indicators of economic value was unachieved due to the significant impact imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, normalized operating profit recorded for 2021 was below the level seen in 2018.
However, Kirin Group is committed to maintaining its goal to achieve mid-single-digit growth in normalized operating profit CAGR by 2027 relative to 2018. In response to the ever-changing business environment, we will plan for dramatic growth in the Food & Beverages domain and the Pharmaceuticals domain. At the same time, we will expand the scale of the Health Science domain, an area which plays a role that is crucial for long-term growth.

Food & Beverages is the original business domain of Kirin Group and still is its foundational business domain. Although we were significantly affected by the pandemic, the Group will work to recover and achieve further growth.
In the alcoholic beverages business, the main markets where the Group operates, Japan and Australia, are both mature markets, so quantitative growth is not expected to be significant. To achieve sustainable growth, the Group needs to increase the proportion of products and services which offer higher levels of added value. The Group is implementing specific strategies to achieve this, such as by strengthening craft beer in both of those markets and in North America.
In the non-alcoholic beverages business, competition is becoming increasingly severe in the Japanese market. From a long-term perspective, the Group has been striving to increase the proportion of brands offering added value relating to health and well-being with the aim to reposition the non-alcoholic beverages business to play a larger role in the Health Science domain.

Through many years of research into natural ingredients, cells and microorganisms, the Kirin Group has succeeded in discovering numerous materials that contribute to health and well-being, such as Lactococcus lactis strain Plasma (LC-Plasma). The Health Science domain will utilize these unique materials to address the social issues of health and well-being.

While creating synergies between Kyowa Kirin and FANCL, the Kirin Group will establish a unique business model and aim to achieve a higher profit growth rate than the Food & Beverages and Pharmaceuticals domains.

Kyowa Kirin, from the Pharmaceuticals domain, was created through a merger between Kyowa Hakko Kogyo and Kirin Pharma , which originated from Kirin Brewery’s pharmaceuticals division. Kyowa Kirin is a research and development style company that utilizes state of the art biotechnology centered on antibody technology. As one of Japan’s major life science companies, Kyowa Kirin will always pursue new possibilities and strive to contribute to the health and well-being of people around the world by creating new value.
In the 2021-2025 Medium-Term Business Plan, “Provide pharmaceuticals for unmet medical needs”, “Address patient-centric healthcare needs” and “Retain the trust of society” have been set forth as the three strategies, and the Pharmaceuticals domain is expected to drive the growth of the Kirin Group over the medium-term.